Word: slash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAXES: Johnson wants to cut by about $1.5 billion federal excise taxes on retail items, perhaps including luggage, jewelry, cosmetics. Congress is eager indeed to slash excise taxes-so much so that there is considerable agitation to repeal nearly all of them. Frugal Lyndon wants to stop far short of that and may run into rugged opposition to holding the cuts down to his figure. But Albert is slightly optimistic, says: "I do think something can be worked out." The President also wants Congress to ensure quickie tax-cut procedures that would allow fast-but temporary-action should a recession...
...deserted night, when the hours are small and panic is huge, Erie begins his hour-long self-sell monologue. The spiel sounds like a matter of life and death, because it is. The air is never airy in O'Neill. It is obdurate and oppressive, and his characters slash at it and through it with fast talk, sweet talk, crying talk, any kind of talk. It is a poet's speech-not that O'Neill could ever write a poetic line, but in the sense that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express...
...House on the Sound is by far the least interesting of her books typographically. Although I am merely an amateur as far as printing is concerned. I noted immediately the flawed quality of the 9-point Granjon Bold. In several instances the lower' case 'm' was disrupted by a slash across the base, and I even observed a wrong-font 't' on one occasion...
...widespread fear that Goldwater might slash farm price supports and down- grade the Rural Electrification Administration helped lead to his sorry showing in the rural Midwest. Johnson almost wiped out the big G.O.P. margins traditional in downstate Illinois. He carried some rural areas of Wisconsin by an unprecedented 60%. He took North Dakota's Ward County- which had gone to Nixon in 1960-by a margin of 2 to 1. At the same time, Johnson also knocked down the normal Republican margins in Midwest suburban areas, even carried Missouri's suburban St. Louis County. In the Rocky Mountain...
Much of the early editorial vehemence is now gone, perhaps out of a self-conscious attempt to achieve balance. But the editorial cartoonists show no enthusiasm for calm assessment. Goldwater has always been an enticing target and the cartoonists continue to slash away. The candidates themselves may have found few issues to debate, but to the artists of the editorial page the campaign has been a long excuse for caustic, black-and-white comment -a gallery of caricature in which the Republicans almost always come out second best (see cuts...